Cool new global cooling phenomenon? Or fauxtography?
It is believed that the columns were formed by those [ice crystals in the air] reflecting light from the bright streetlamps and other lights on the ground - beaming it back downwards again.Skies all over Europe have been filled with such natural phenomena during the cold snap of recent weeks.
However:
Scientists at the website spaceweather.com said: 'Truhin’s pillars are not the ordinary kind. Even eading experts in atmospheric optics can’t quite figure them out
'These pillars are mysterious. They have unexplained curved tops and even curved arcs coming from their base.
'Arcs in rare displays like these could be from column crystals to give parts of tangent arcs, others could be the enigmatic Moilanan arc or even the recently discovered reflected Parry arc.
Curtsy: Inside Catholic